I’m totally laughing. We got home last night & it was before 5 but dark. There I was telling the hubs that it was just too late to do a big dinner- but it was an hour earlier than we usually start dinner 🙂 Go figure. It just felt so late. Won’t be long until we have 5 hours of daylight around here.

Karly, As much as I’ve been confused by the whole time change it’s been nothing compared to the pets. Our surviving composting guinea pig, Crystal, gets pellets at 6 pm. Sharp. She’ll start wheeking to let you know that her suppertime is approaching around 5:30-5:45, and really gets serious about it right before 6 pm. So on Sunday night she was pissed because we were ignoring her demands. The dogs have been a bit more mellow–they know that I’ve missed their mealtime, but since we’re not eating either they kinda roll with it.

The best part of the fall time change, to me, is waking up Monday morning. I’d forgotten to set the clocks in the bedroom (so sick of the solo parenting thing–one more week, and I did all the batteries and other clocks, but something had to give and that was it) so when the alarm went off I just got up and started my day. I loved having that extra hour and got so much done between 4:30 and 7 am when the kids woke up!

Right, to the topic at hand–link up parties. I’m sharing a Pumpkin Cranberry Maple Kugel with you, part of Stefani Pollack’s Thanksgivukkah Potluck to celebrate the concurrent (once in a lifetime) holidays of Thanksgiving and Hanukkah happening later this month. I’ve got a vegetarian antipasti-filled rolled pizza on a sweet potato crust. I’m also rockin’ the beets in my Apricot & Beet Cranberry Sauce.

WHOA! Thank you so much for the feature, Karly! BTW…I agree, the time change totally sucks. By the time I get off work and to the gym, it’s dark outside. This leaves me to really rethink the whole gym-thing. 🙂 New Gym Excuse: It’s too dark outside. Heehee..

Holy crap… my head just exploded with all of these awesome recipes! I think I started clicking around over an hour ago, and didn’t even realize how much time was passing. How did I not notice your What’s Cookin’ Wednesday’s before now? They’re awesome!